JONES, Dan
The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors
The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors
London: The Folio Society, 2025
Illustrated by ROMPO, Max
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JONES, Dan. The Templars: The Rise and Fall of God's Holy Warriors. London: The Folio Society, 2025. First printing thus.
10 inches x 6¾ inches, 552 pages. Publisher's full cloth binding, printed and blocked with a design by the artist. Printed endpapers. Frontispiece and 24 pages of colour illustrations, as well as 26 decorative part-titles and chapter headings, by Max Rompo. Nine black and white maps. Housed in a paper slipcase blocked with a design by the artist.
A new copy, as received from the publisher in the original Sylvicta wrapping paper, with a few shallow creases to a handful of pages (please see photos); else fine.
About the production
The Templars were the wealthiest, most powerful and most secretive of the Christian military orders that flourished in the crusading era. Founded in 1119 by a French knight and his eight companions, they began with humble origins as a roadside rescue team for pilgrims to the Holy Land, and went on to fight in the greatest international conflicts of the Middle Ages in Palestine, Syria, Egypt and Asia Minor. The order became dazzlingly wealthy and financially sophisticated: they built castles, owned land, ran cities, bankrolled wars and helped make popes and kings. Their downfall in 1307, engineered by the French king Philip IV, was spectacular and extreme, ending in total elimination. Dan Jones takes these phenomenal ingredients and turns them into exciting, page-turning history. The designer Max Rompo has immersed himself in all things Templar, using Templar symbols and motifs along with the red-and-white Templar colours to create a cover, slipcase and endpapers that are medieval in flavour and impressively clever. Templar crosses and motifs also appear throughout the text. The colour illustrations draw the reader further into the world of the Templars with scenes from illuminated manuscripts, ancient maps, medieval wall paintings and dramatic photographs of crusader castles.
About the author
Dan Jones is a bestselling historian, TV presenter and award-winning journalist. His non-fiction, which have sold more than a million copies worldwide, include The Plantagenets (2012), a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller; The Hollow Crown (2014), a Sunday Times bestseller (published in the USA as The Wars of the Roses); The Templars (2017; Folio 2025), a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller; Crusaders (2019); and Powers and Thrones (2021) and Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King (2024). His fiction includes the Essex Dogs trilogy (2022, 2023, 2025) set during the Hundred Years War. Dan has written and presented numerous TV series including 'Secrets of Great British Castles', 'Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets' and 'London: 2000 Years of History'. He worked as a consultant on the A&E series 'Knightfall', wrote and hosted the official 'Knightfall' podcast, and appeared in HBO's official film charting the real history behind 'Game of Thrones'. He hosts the podcast 'This Is History'.
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